Resigned US Diplomat Excerpt--Wall Street journal

[Richard Romeo]

Hi all--thought I'd pass this along.
Rich

Resigning in Protest, A Career Diplomat Turns Peace
Envoy --- Letter to Powell Makes Him An Unlikely
Antiwar Icon; `I Just Want to Hug You!' 

By Peter Waldman 
1,517 words 
1 April 2003
The Wall Street Journal 
A1 
English

...Bookish and shy in his preppy blue blazer and gray
flannel pants, Mr. Kiesling has become an unlikely
voice of the peace movement. A month ago, he became
the first of three American diplomats so far to quit
in protest over the crisis with Iraq. He abandoned
what by all accounts was a successful, 19-year career
with the Foreign Service -- most recently as the U.S.
embassy's political counselor in Athens. His letter of
resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell was
reprinted in the Washington Post and the New York
Review of Books and widely circulated online. ...



...The most studious sibling in a family of four
overachieving kids from Palo Alto, Calif., Mr.
Kiesling immersed himself in Dungeons & Dragons and
Thomas Pynchon novels in high school. He graduated Phi
Beta Kappa in ancient Greek from Swarthmore College
outside Philadelphia, and earned a master's degree in
ancient history and archaeology at Berkeley, before
joining the Foreign Service. ...

Rich


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